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WASHINGTON  Iconix Brand Group has agreed to pay $550,000 to settle charges that
the company failed to produce certain documents before buying Rocawear, an acquisition
requiring pre-merger review, the Department of Justice announced today.

The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division today filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District
Court in Washington, D.C., against Iconix for violating the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act of 1976. At
the same time, the Department filed a proposed settlement that, if approved by the court, will
settle the charges.

According to the complaint, Iconix violated pre-merger notification requirements when it
acquired the Rocawear brand by failing to submit to the antitrust enforcement agencies certain
company documents with its pre-merger notification. The Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act
imposes notification and waiting period requirements on individuals and companies over a
certain size before they can consummate acquisitions of stock or assets over a certain value. For
transactions that must be reported, the Act further requires the parties to supply certain
documents prepared or reviewed by the company's officers and directors in connection with their
evaluation or analysis of the proposed transaction. Iconix submitted no such documents, despite
the fact that such documents existed, including a formal presentation made to its Board of
Directors about the transaction and a less formal e-mail among officers and directors. In
addition, when initially asked to review whether such documents existed, the company falsely
reaffirmed that no such documents existed.

"Compliance with Hart-Scott-Rodino Act filing obligations is fundamental to the
agencies' ability quickly and accurately to evaluate a transaction's competitive impact," said
Thomas O. Barnett, Assistant Attorney General of the Department's Antitrust Division. "Filing
parties must understand that the Division will vigorously enforce filing requirements even if we
conclude that the transaction poses no threat to competition or consumers."

By law, a party is subject to a maximum civil penalty of $11,000 for each day it has been
found to be in violation of the HSR Act.